Residents of Asonkore SSNIT, a sprawling community in the Obuasi East Municipality of Ashanti region are living in fear following the killing of 42-year-old Bismark Sarfo Danso alias Yaw Danso by armed robbers in his house at the weekend.
Bismark Sarfo Danso, a worker of AngloGold in Guinea had arrived for a visit barely a fortnight ago and was due to return to his workplace in Guinea soon, when the robbers struck in the early hours of last Friday and killed him.
Comfort Mensah, the wife, speaking to ‘The Chronicle’ said at about 2 a.m. on Friday, a relative, Kwame Atta, with whom the couple was staying with, banged at their door with the message that he was sick and needed some medication.
She said she opened the door only to realise that three robbers had forced the boy to feign sickness and make that request, so as to get access to their room and attack them.
Comfort Mensah said the robbers demanded money, laptops and key to the husband’s private car parked inside the house.
She further stated that she realised that GH¢2,600.00 was in her bag and quickly handed it over to them.
“In the ensuing confusion the robbers hit my husband’s head with a hard object which sent him into coma and later died,” she said.
She said at a point during the struggle between her husband and the robbers, she managed to call some residents on phone and they responded positively, but by the time they arrived the robbers had escaped with the money, two laptops, two phones and two Bluetooth speakers.
She confided in The Chronicle that all the robbers were masked. Comfort Mensah appealed to the IGP to use his good offices to help arrest the killers of her husband to face the law.
A ‘Burger’ resident in the area feared for residents in the areas and told ‘The Chronicle’ that if a man of calm disposition like Bismark could be killed in this way, then all of those staying in the area are not safe and urged the police to help trace the killers.
From Frederick Danso Abeam, Obuasi
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